Week 15

Hello Everyone,

I am very sorry for this very late post.  Work has been sooo busy.  Anyway, let me encourage everyone to keep on practicing their memory work.  I know, there are a lot of information already and we will be adding more and more. It could be challenging at times but remember we've work so hard already... continue to press on toward your goal.  Keep on!

Before I go on with the different subjects, let me make an important announcement, especially for the parents who were not there the last meeting.  You might have observed that the children have brought home tickets.  To encourage the children to review their memory work and to encourage them to participate in class, I am giving out tickets every time they give a correct answer in class whether during new grammar or review time.  We will have a raffle drawing every week for little prizes.  I also told them to keep all their tickets for our end of the year something (I am not sure yet what I want to do, but it will involve bigger prizes).  So make sure the tickets are kept safe till the end of the year.  Thank you.

Now, for real business...

New Grammar
History: Song - CC CD - World War I Countries
 We sang through the song and for better visual I cut out map of the countries for them to remember the name and location.  This is the picture I used (I did not include italy in my cut-out).



Timeline: Song - CC CD
 We sang through the song and did the hand motions taught during the opening ceremony.

Latin: Song - CC CD
 This is another review. The Hint is if you did something imperfectly, "BAM!"

Science: Song - NoGreaterJoy
 I drew a picture of the roller coaster on the board and sort of gave a short explanation that the potential energy is when the roller coaster is sitting at the top of the arch before it falls and kinetic is when the roller coaster falls.  Also gave an illustration of a person holding a bow and arrow - potential is when the archer holding the bow drawn and kinetic is the flying arrow.

English: Song - NoGreaterJoy
 We sang through the song a lot of times with the following Hand Motions.
 Declarative - right pointer finger drawing a period.
 Interrogative - right pointer finger drawing a question mark.
 Imperative - make a fist on the right hand and hit the left open palm with it.
 Exclamatory - right pointer finger drawing an exclamation point.

Math: Song - NoGreaterJoy
 I brought a ruler, tape measure and meter tape. We sang through the song a lot of times. I used an activity similar to this.  I like this site for general math drills and you will find metric measurements here. 

Geography: Point and say the countries of the Middle East
 I used the mnemonic The Cat Stopped In Kitty Place (Instantly)

Fine Arts
Great Artist is Gainsborough
I shared a little bit about Gainsborough and the part that I liked the most is when he said, "I paint portraits to live, landscape because I love them and music because I can't leave it alone."  I also brought a book with all landscape for them to choose from and because we did not have enough time, I told them to make cut-outs of people at home.
Thank you to everyone who brought their art box which made it easier for us to stay in our classroom.  We will do it again next week.

Book recommendation for this week's lesson...
History - World War I Book same as last week
Math - book same as last week
 We also enjoyed a book on metric measurements "Polly's Pen Pal" by Stuart Murphy


Reminder for next week...
Presentation - Where would you like to go for a vacation? or Where else in the world would you like to live?
Fine Arts - Please bring your art box again next week.  Thank you.

That's all for now.  Have a wonderful weekend.

Zabrina